Brighton Day Two- The day we froze

Hey! So here's day 2!! =D

We woke up early the morning the next day. Perhaps at around 5am. The sky was already bright then. The 6 of us were jet-lagged, waking up early in the morning, and did the lamest thing the world could ever think of. EAT LEFTOVER FISH & CHIPS!!!

hahaha

Well, we were a bit hungry and we shouldn't let good food go to waste, right??

After Uncle Dennis and Sai Kuma woke up we told them about our early 'breakfast' and they said we were supposed to feed the leftovers to the birds outside their house =O Or the foxes. HUH?!? Yeah they said that there were foxes around but we didn't see any. But po, ma, and I did feed the birds and they were very sneaky!!!


picture before leaving. Checked out all the sweet stuff that Sai Kuma stocked for us to being home. KIT KATTTTTT!!!

Headed out early for Sunday Mass in a Catholic Church. It was over at Hove, the other part of Sussex, correct me if I'm wrong. Uncle Dennis used to work there last time if I'm correct. Service was interesting. It was the shortest mass I've ever been to. Guess how long was it???

45 minutes!!!!

IKR!! It was fast and short and sweet. Whoo! The church was also pretty. All churches are pretty =)

Started to rain after that. Rushed to the car.

Next stop : Breakfast!

Went to a place called Wetherspoons. Cool place with a very warm vibe (:
There's something not right about this pic. Try spotting it =P

The menu. Uhm, looked through it but didn't order anything. Sai Kuma ordered for us newbies. hehehe

My drink. Hot chocolate. KICK LAH!!! My brother got jealous because he only had tea. HAHA

Sauces from the sauce table!! They just leave it there and let you guys take whatever you want. So good oh~ So uhm, we took one each as souvenirs =O


So here is breakfast!


The very famous Kidney Pie. I loved it. It was nice, and different. haha. Ma and po didn't like it because they said that the kidney pie smelt weird. Only pa seemed to enjoy. I think it's nice but my plate better!!!

English breakfast?? Hungry already?

Nick and I shared a portion. Baked beans (their beans are way smaller than what we have here!), sunny side up (the egg), tomato, mushroom, hash brown, sausage and bacon!!! It's more than enough for the both of us. hehehehe

Maybe only enough for me because Nick didn't want the mushroom and tomato so all I gave him was half of the sausage, some bacon, baked beans and half of the egg. HAHA. And I bet he didn't take a single bite of that kidney pie. Poor him.

BACON!

I took a picture with the waiter there. He's also a muscian, I heard. HAHA. Ma and the rest were daring me to take a picture with him, I don't know why. LOL


After breakfast, walked acrossed the street and found TESCO! A supermarket! WHOO!
Our family has some kind of craving about going in to supermarkets. Ma wants to look at stuff (maybe like what brand of soap they have), pa likes to look at yogurt and stuff, my grandpa took interest of bread and pastry, my po is always tempted by vege and fruits and cheese, nick likes to grab chips and sweet stuff. And me? CANDY!!!!

So yeah. If we have no idea where to go we'd probably end up in Tesco or Sainbury's or ASDA.



After that, we walked around Hove. Only for a while. I'm emphasizing on the A WHILE. Within that time, kung bought a lawnmower and po managed to purchase a food processor. I don't know how they did it. They just did. HAHAHAHA. I'm not going to comment on that!!!


Sai Kuma and Uncle Dennis dropped us at The Marina because they had to attend a tea party. It was the Duke & Duchess of Richmond's Wedding Anniversary. They're close friends of my uncle and aunt so they had to go wah. =D So cool they have these kind of tea party stuff. *jealous

*We also visited their house so stay tuned to the posts coming up!

The Marina.

It's like The Marina we have here in Sutera harbour, only bigger and it's open to public!!! Bad thing is that we froze to death here. I had my hands in my pocket the whole time and I bet po's toes were numb. Walked around a factory outlet, where Nick bought a jumper for only 5 pounds. Quite cheap lah but I didn't get anything. I was cold.

Had some donuts.
The only donuts we had for the whole trip and it was delish.

Saw a Ben & Jerry's vending machine!! Is it cool or what?!?!?!?!

So this is the front of the Marina, where we found this chinese ship thingy. I think it's a restaurant. The whole walk along The Marina was really nice, but it was REALLY COLD!!!! Not forgetting the wind! It blew, uhm, continuously and trust me, no one's hair was neatly combed that day.

Loved the sails (:

Saw a character from Toy's Story walking around =O

In the end, we couldn't stand the cold. Po and kung surrendered and decided to have lunch in Subway. Nick followed. I followed ma and pa who chose to dine at a small coffee house!

I had apple struddle.

After that, we walked for a bit. And entered another supermarket! Asda! But we ended up in George, the department in the supermarket where they sold clothes and shoes and socks and underwear. Trust me, George itself is bigger than the whole Parkson we have here! I think we spent about 2 hours there alone in George and by the time we were done, the supermarket was closing. SAD! We didn't even get to walk downstairs.

Stores closed early that day. At 5pm because it was a Sunday! Ended up sitting on the benches outside Asda. And then we went into McDonalds' to stay warm. Went back to the square of the Marina and you know where we hid?! Underneath the stairs of a hotel. SO KESIAN OH WE WERE LIKE HOMELESS KIDS COLD AND LOST!! And then we switched to the bowling alley, then cinema, then back to the bowling alley again. Gave up. Stayed there for a long time.

Trust me, it was the first time all of us felt really cold. HAHAHA

Luckily Sai Kuma and Uncle Dennis came to pick us up and we went back to their place. ALL OF US WERE SERIOUSLY FREEZING!!!!!

Just thinking about that day makes me cold.

Didn't go out that night. All of us were tired. Tried chinese takeaway for the first time. They really deliver it to your doorstep! And it tasted good!!!

Folded in early that day due to exhaustion!!

So that was how our day ended!!! hahaha. Stay tuned for day 3!! It's half a day in Brighton and we headed to Belgium!!

Brighton Day One

I have the blogging itch to tell you guys about my recent trip to the United Kingdom. Okay, it's not that recent but it happened a month ago. hahaha. But memories will never get old =)

My family and I, along with my grandparents, survived the 16-hour flight and arrived in the famous Heathrow Airport, London and quickly got into our taxi and headed down to our first destination, Brighton. Sorry ah no picture of the airport because pa booked the taxi beforehand so after collecting our luggage, we went into the car straight away.

I remember the moment while walking towards the carpark, I very sakai, amazed by that tiny part of London, that I almost got banged by a taxi at the crossing. LOL. But the driver pro lah so I didn't get killed on my first big trip to a place so grand.


Brighton is home to my aunt (小姑妈) and her husband, Uncle Dennis. Both of them are from Malaysia, but have been living there since, FOREVER! Pa also studied in Brighton for a few years so, that's why we are there for holiday =)

Arrived Brighton earlier than expected. I think all of us were tired and jetlagged. Oh, one more thing. IT WAS VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY COLD!!!! It's summer there but it was so cold. I think it was because of some wind blowing from somwhere so the weather had a sudden change. So being people from the tropical part of the globe we were practically, freezing.

But breakfast came to save us! My aunt (okay from here onwards I'm gonna call her Sai Kuma) prepared a very typical English breakfast? Which I think they have it every day but for us it's only once in 10 years. LOL

Table to feed 8 person. No worries. Lots more in the kitchen.

Didn't take a picture of my aunt's apartment!! Uhm, I think I did but it's in another album hahaha. Sorry lah you might say that I'm lazy and that I'm being a lousy blogger (which I might be) but I took around 2000 pictures with my own camera and there are around 4000 pictures all together. =/

Quick brief about the place. So Sai Kuma's apartment has only 3 rooms. One is their bedroom, and the other two rooms are occupied with their work desks and fishing equipment. We slept in sleeping bags (not for me, I slept on the sofa!) for the two nights and had to share a bathroom. You know how I like to jump around while I walk? I was not allowed to do that because I was afraid that the family downstairs might get a heart attack.HAHAHA. But I enjoyed the two nights we spent there cramped in that tiny space. It was totally fun and much warmer than living in a hotel =)


Now, where was I? >.<

They have mushrooms for breakfast =O RARE.

After that, took a drive to a nearby church. Took lots of pictures along the road. It may be facinating to me, but WILL BE boring for you. because I take pictures of almost everything

bread no dust meh when you reach home?

The church we first visited (I'm saying this because we really visited A LOT of churches) is named St. Bartholomew's. If I am not wrong, it's one of the oldest Catholic churches in the UK.

Nick and I inside the church. Note the organ behind it's like WHOOOAAA!

Everytime I step into the churches there kan, my jaw drops. Like, it really drops and I feel that my saliva is almost going to drop too. I'm in awe.


After visiting the church, we headed down to the heart of Brighton, where they're having their Fringe Festival. It is a festival held once a year in May where they have bazaars, dances, and all that fun stuff.

Grafitti along the road...

The famous British postbox and phone booth

So we walked around North Laine and the place where they sell loads of antique goods, and the alley where they sold farm products. Quit the quacking, I don't really know the exact names to the streets but I know what I saw there =P

My favourite shop in the whole entire world.

I know I sound like a kid but I really DECLARE it as my favourite shop in the whole entire world. I've been in there on day one, then went back there for 2 and a half more times. And it's still not enough!!! Okay, now I feel like going back into that shop again.

houses along the road. So pretty the flowers!

The Antique shop that we went in. Lots of cool stuff in there which I have never, ever ever, seen in my life. The most bizarre thing I've found is an antique 'Twister'.Now I wonder how you play that.

Temptation along the road =O
We just had breakfast but quickly we got hungry
maybe it's because of the cold weather and our fats are too thin to keep us warm

I HAVE NEVER, EVER EVER, SEEN THIS KIND OF SCRUM-DIDDLY-LUMPSCIOUS CAKE BEFORE!
and I regret not buying one to try T_____________T

One of the stalls in the farm market...

So after walking for hours and hours with our jetlagged bodies (not that I mind but seriously, it was exhausting) we wanted to settle for lunch. Unfortunately, most of the indoor cafes were occupied, we couldn't sit outside to have tea because of the cold weather, so were walking here and there to look for a place to fill up our tummies.

We went into a very cool bar and thought we can have something there but were soon chased out because Nick and I were under 18. Pfft. They didn't put the sign outside pun.

In the end, we went into a place where they're having an all-you-can-eat kind of promotion so we were well fed.

pa's. Didn't take mine because I was too hungry, and cold =O

Visited a candy shop after that and it was, another jawdropping moment.
After this trip I realized that I'm a person who is easily facinated with tiny things. LOL

So yeah, everyone was tired (except for my uncle and aunt) so we went back to their pad. Showered and took a short nap.

This is the view from the window of the living room at their place.
IKR. *jaw drops

We wanted to have Fish and Chips for dinner at the club house nearby but their kitchen was closed by then. Cannot blame them because we left the house around 9pm, FOR DINNER. hahaha. We (sai kuma, ma, pa and I) took a detour to another restaurant to tapau Fish and Chips while the others went back to the apartment to wait for food.

So here we are. The Fish & Chips takeaway.
YUMM!

They don't only sell Fish & Chips...

This picture does no justice to the Fish & Chips =(

It's really yummy lah. We ordered 3 Cod sets plus an additional piece of Haddock but the 8 of us could not finish 'em!!! The portion is THAT big. The next day we got up early(because of jet lag) and finished the leftovers while waiting for my aunt and uncle to wake up.

After the food, we hit the sleeping bags.

Except for Nick who was too tired and decided to sleep in his jeans.

Day 2 coming up in a lightyear.
Having trials in about, a month =/